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This week's Torah portion by Rabbi Jonathan Kraus, of Belmont, Mass. His previous d'vrei torah are archived also. See
The Jewish Communication Network's Interactive Torah Study , with Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams, uses a selection from the weekly portion in order to facilitate the studying of Torah, Mishnah and Gemara each day (as recommended in the Talmud (B. Avodah Zarah 19b)). The Mishnah and Gemara exerpts are keyed to the parshat hashavuah.
Torahfax , by Rabbi Zalmen Marozov.
"Seven Minute Home/Office Spiritual Workout."

Archived Divrei Torah

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The Shamash Archived D'vrei Torah - contains a great deal of archived d'vrei Torah (at least 20 per parasha), with a good search engine . This search engine not only examines the commentary distributed by Shamash listproc's, but also other d'vrei torah stored at the Shamash mainframe. It is the largest and most diversified archive of torah commentary that I know of.
The Tao of Torah is a collection of rather nice d'vrei torah and spirituality, by Virtual Yeshiva/Rasheit Institute for Jewish Spirituality .
JTS Chancellor Schorsch's Parashat Hashavuah is an archive of the Chancellor's D'vrei Torah since 1993.
Project Genesis , an organization which has many email lists, also has an archive of back issues .
The Etz Chaim Weekly , written by the Etz Chaim region of NCSY, has archived their D'var Torah columns.
Rabbi Jonathan Kraus , of Belmont, Mass., has an archive of his previous d'vrei torah, which started in early 1996.
United Synagogue Youth the high school age affiliate of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism , has a small but growing collection of d'vrei torah by Cody Dydeck the Religion/Education Vice President of USY.

Other Torah/Talmud Related Pages

These are a bit more like classes rather than discussion lists, although I'm not entire sure the distinction holds.
Audio Classes - These are various Torah study and other Jewish material which are in "real audio" format. There are .ra files and tapes for each parsha.
Think Jewish.com offer Torah discourses of the Lubavitcher Rebbe translated into English available through RealAudio or TrueSpeech audio formats. There is a subscription price.

Internet Subscription Lists

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The following is a list of internet subscription lists devoted to Weekly Torah study. If you know of any others, or have any corrections or updates to any of them, please contact me .

What is a Subscription List?

An email 'subscription list' is pretty much like subscribing to a magazine or newspaper, except that most often they are free. (In fact, with one exception, all lists mentioned on this page are free.) When you subscribe, you will receive the 'publication', in the form of an email message, once per week (or more or less often, depending upon the author). To subscribe, all you need to do is to send an email message to a particular address, with a few key words in the body of your message (usually 'sub' or 'subscribe'). Further details are below.

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To subscribe to any of the lists in this section, send a email message to listproc@shamash.org with the following line in your message

  subscribe <listname> <your full name>

in the message.
The listnames are:
torahfax - Chicago Torah Network Shabbat Fax: discussion of the weekly Torah portion.
top - Torah Outreach Program, by Ohr Someach, Jerusalem.
l-torah - Liberal Judaism Torah Discussion - torah discussion with a slightly wider perspective then many others. Includes all ld-torah messages.
ld-torah - Liberal D'vrei Torah - Same as l-torah, but just the d'vrei torah, with no discussion.
dvartorah - Talks on the Parsha from around the World
shabbatshalom - Insights into Torah and life and personal growth by Rabbi Kalman Packouz of Yeshivat Aish HaTorah
maggid - Weekly discussion of Torah and Musar in story form of the Maggidim of old
etz-chaim - Weekly Dvar Torah by Etz Chaim NCSY. These are also archived at Shamash
enayim - Yeshiva University's weekly d'var Torah
bytetorah - A Byte of Torah
outorah - Torah Insights (sponsored by Orthodox Union).
mj-ravtorah - Weekly Dvar Torah based on Rav Soloveicheck
oxford-judaism - Rav Botach's Essays
shemakol - The MTA Weekly Dvar Torah
ucsj-torah - A torah discussion list sponsored by UCSJ
likpeshat - HTC's Weekly on the Torah Portion
daf-hashuvua - Weekly Sedra United Synagogue of London
t-toons - Torah Toons Gazette
shabbas-doc - Shabbas.doc Torah and news for families
ltw - Learn Torah With Torah for adults
j-seminar - Discussions of Tanach from a scholarly perspective
russian-torah - Weekly torah portion in Russion and discussions
uscj-talmud - A talmud discussion list sponsored by the USCJ
DAILY Torah Studies:
D-1 "Lessons in Tanya" Chabad Chassidic Philosophy
D-2 "Hayom Yom" A Chasidic Thought for the Day
D-3 "Rambam" - Maimonides' - A Daily "Dose" of Jewish Law

WEEKLY:
W-1 L'Chaim Weekly Newsletter - with Stories and Light reading
W-2 Likutei Sichos - Translated talks of the Rebbe - Weekly Torah Portion
W-3 The Week in Review - Contemporay Adaptations - Weekly Torah Portion
W-4 Once Upon a Chasid - A Story with a lesson
W-5 Weekly Teaser of What's New on the Gopher this week
W-6 Insights on the Geula (Redemption as found in the Weekly Torah Portion)
W-7 Wellsprings - Chasidic Insight into the Torah Portion
W-8 Please Tell Me what the Rebbe Says - Torah for Youth
W-9 A Short Summary on the Aliyot from the weekly Torah Portion
W-10 V'dibarta Bam - Selected Homilies in Q&A format

GENERAL:
G-1 Holiday Guides
G-2 Essays on Contemporary Issues
G-3 Explanations on Hagadah shel Pesach - Passover Hagada
G-4 Explanations on Pirke Avos - Ethics of our Fathers
G-5 Sefer Haminhagim - Chabad Customs
G-6 Understanding Prayer
G-7 Printed materials on Moshiach (e.g. Toras Menachem)
G-8 Information on New Publications Gopher is a text retrieval system, which has many files available to be read on-line, e-mail them to yourself or save the files and then download them directly to your own computer. Or, visit the Chabad Web Site .

Other Weekly Torah subscriptions

parashah - from the Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, which includes the Rabbinical School for the conservative movement. Send subscribe <listname> <your full name> as the message to: listserv@jtsa.edu
D'var Torah by Rabbi Kraus - of Beth El Temple Center, has a web subscription form. I'm not sure how to subscribe to these -- nevertheless, the following are addresses of other lists.
torahfax@netaxis.qc.ca
yys@dorsai.org - weekly torah portion from Chabad
LTW@torahaura.com - ToraAura in California.
Each weekly commentary is written by a different person and represent views all over the spectrum. There is a charge (I think $65/year) for this one.

Talmud

Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams, Ph.D. offers a free Talmud class over the internet. For more information, see http://www.compassnet.com/~maqom/ , or write her at: maqom@compassnet.com .
The Jewish Communication Network's Interactive Torah Study , with Rabbi Abrams, uses a selection from the weekly portion in order to facilitate the studying of Torah, Mishnah and Gemara each day (as recommended in the Talmud (B. Avodah Zarah 19b)). The Mishnah and Gemara exerpts are keyed to the parshat hashavuah.
The Daf Yomi Advancement Forum presents the daily Talmud page in real-time audio format.

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